Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduced the province to a state of beggary. Guam Outrage. Japanese newspapers last week noted a U. S. "outrage." To Guam Island six months ago came 112 Japanese laborers on six-month permits. When the permits ran out Guam's Governor, U. S. Navy Captain Edmund Spence Root, refused to renew them according to Tokyo's Kokumin Shimbnn. Somebody appealed to the Japanese Consul General at Manila. Nevertheless the 112 were deported on Governor Root's "outrageous order...
...torpid than they are reputed to be. Mexicans are ardent sportsmen, although they have invented no game of their own. Mexican boxing matches draw big crowds. Pelota (jai alai) gave rise to the game of fronton tennis, played with rackets instead of cestas. Yale's football coach, Reginald Root, got his experience coaching the first Mexico City University team which was good enough last year to hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams have multiplied in the last ten years. Mexico City's best professional baseball team, the Aztecas, is fully as competent as most...
...theory that the employer who wants to keep his production at current levels must hire 25% more workers to obey the law. President Green of the A. F. of L. jubilated: "It's the first constructive measure yet passed dealing with unemployment. It strikes at the root of the problem - technological unemployment...
Valerian is a cheesy-smelling sedative prepared from an herb root. Last year chemists compounded it with zinc or ammonia, loaded the mixture with ether, sealed it in glass thermos bottles. About five months ago Chicago thugs, hired by racketeering labor unionists, began smashing such thermos bottles inside factories and showrooms. When the highly volatile ether spreads through the room, bearing molecules of the valerian compound, the compound penetrates carpets, garments, walls, floors. Overwhelming is its lasting stench...
...foot a year ago and got back into the lineup in time to help his team win the pennant. More discouraging to Manager Charles Grimm has been the failure of his new pitchers to round into shape, though he has a staff of able veterans-Malone, Bush, Root, Warneke -to fall back upon...